[a_imho]

After reading the article I don't get the author's problem or the proposed fix.

[randomsearch]

An ironic answer would be, yes that’s his point.

I think the problem is: Programming is designed for and by a small group of programmers who enjoy making it difficult.

The solution is to create industrial societies / institutions / guilds etc. who can encourage a transition away towards simpler and more accessible programming approaches.

[AstralStorm]

Please describe some of those "more accessible" approaches and I'll probably tell you that they are already here and/or have already failed.

Otherwise the idea is completely not constructive.

[randomsearch]

I'd say your comment is not constructive: you're asking me to name all the solutions, otherwise my observation has no merit?

I'll expand a little. Let's take a single example: developing a single page web application.

To know how to do that, I need to learn HTML, CSS, JS Frameworks, web pack or whatever. Linters, preprocessors, package management ....

Contrast that to building flash app where a designer could use a GUI to produce a beautiful interactive app in no time at all.

Yep, we all hated Flash, but in terms of accessibility to creators, it was beautiful compared to the mess we've made.

A little off-topic but good for perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

[lkschubert8]

Aren't you then asking for a WYSIWYG editor or a CMS that includes something like that? Many of those exist and are suitable for a lot of web development. You step into the lower level for customization that is difficult or just flat out not implemented in the higher level tooling.

[randomsearch]

Also, pretty much anything Bret Victor has done.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4&t=11s